Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
May 2005
Abstract
Magnetic properties of Mn-doped ZnO strongly depend on sample preparation and annealing. While the samples sintered in air at 500 °C show ferromagnetism at room temperature, those sintered at 900 °C are paramagnetic. The samples sintered in vacuum show a ferromagnetic transition at 45 K, which is attributed to ferrimagnetic Mn3O4. With an increase of annealing temperature, the ferromagnetism observed at room temperature in the low-temperature-sintered samples is gradually suppressed and finally completely removed. These results can be understood by considering a metastable ferromagnetic phase and its stability under varying temperatures and atmospheres.
Comments
Published by American Institute of Physics. J. Applied Physics 97, 10D303 (2005). ©2005 American Institute of Physics. Permission to use. http://jap.aip.org/jap/.